Mayor Hoeffel walked into a local convenience store, observed pamphlets about the owner’s Christian faith on the store counter, and picked them up before throwing them in the trash bin.

When the manager and part-owner of the store asked Mayor Hoeffel why she threw out the informational pamphlets, she replied, “It’s against my beliefs. This is against true religion.”

As Ed Brayton says, “Hoeffel is a moron and a bigot.” This unprovoked disrespect for others’ faith is despicable — particularly from someone elected to represent people of all faiths.

2. Abuse your power as principal to deny gay students an education.

Hemant Mehta brings us the news from the Taylor Career and Technology Center in Texas, which used to offer an adult class in cosmetology. The class was canceled because principal Thomas Amons worried that one of the students might be gay.

Amons thought one of the students enrolled in the class this semester looked gay. And since it’s illegal to bar someone from a public school because of his sexual orientation, Amons — who is, not surprisingly, a deacon at a Baptist church — decided to just cancel the class altogether.

For good measure, Amons fired the teacher, too, since she was apparently willing to teach a gay student. If that happened, next thing you know there might be gay men working in hair salons all over the country.

Less than one month after of the massacre of Sikhs in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, Mayor Tonya Hoeffel of Garrett, Indiana has further offended the Sikh community. Mayor Hoeffel walked into a local convenience store, observed pamphlets about the Sikh religion on the store counter, and picked them up before throwing them in the trash bin.

When manager and part-owner of the store Kulwinder Singh Nagra asked Mayor Hoeffel why she threw out the informational pamphlets, she replied, “It’s against my beliefs. This is against Christianity.”

Mayor Tonya Hoeffel of Garrett, Indiana, is a big jerk.

And if you’re a Christian and you’re not upset by her jerkery because it was directed at Sikhs instead of at Christians, then I’m afraid you may be well on your way to joining her in Big Jerkland.

“A cop here does not imagine that a traffic stop will turn into a shoot-out.”

Neither do cops here. Again, the U.S. idea of a police officer is “someone who catches Bad Guys.” There’s a big difference between “our job is to clean up these streets and get rid of criminals!” and “our job is to make the city save for its citizens!” This isn’t just something the police believe–the whole reason U.S. crime shows focus on Finding And Catching The Bad Guy is because that is the American cultural expectation of what the police are supposed to do.

This difference in attitude is why there’s a lot more police brutality in the U.S. than there is in Europe.

Also…German, right? I don’t speak the language, but just enough of those words look familiar. :) Wilkommen!

Rhubarbarian82

Neither do cops here.

Maybe not in your city. I’ve had cops pull their guns on me during traffic stops on two separate occasions, here in LA.